AB 2153, as amended, Gray. Postsecondary education: course offerings.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires that self-supporting sessions at the university, known as special sessions, not supplant regular course offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the regular academic year.
This bill wouldbegin delete require that special session program course offerings not supplant or limit the number of regular course offerings that receive state funding at a campus of the university,end deletebegin insert define “supplant” for these purposes,end insert and would require,
to the extent possible, that each campus ensure that a course required as a condition of degree completion for a matriculated student be offered as a state-supported course. The bill would require that a matriculated student, who is required to enroll in a special session course in order to complete his or her undergraduate degree because the state-supported version of that course is unavailable in the academic year, pay the lesser of the state-supported and special session course fee. The bill would constrain the additionbegin delete osend deletebegin insert ofend insert self-supporting special session sections of courses and the timing of special session programs,begin delete as specified, unlessend deletebegin insert except as
specified. The bill would allow a campus to add self-supporting sections, add an undergraduate degree program, or increase self-supporting sections only if end insert the campus receives approval from the Chancellor of the California State University and certain conditions are satisfied. The bill would require the chancellor to provide guidance to campuses regarding how to comply with thisbegin delete bill, and would require the trustees to annually certify compliance with these conditions.end deletebegin insert bill.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 89708 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), tuition fees
4adequate, in the long run, to meet the cost of maintaining special
5sessions in the California State University shall be required of,
6and collected from, students enrolled in each special session under
7and pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees.
8(b) (1) “Special sessions,” as used in this division, means
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self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California
10State University. The special sessions shall include, but not be
11limited to, career enrichment and retraining programs. It is the
12intent of the Legislature that those programs, currently offered on
13a self-supporting basis by the California State University during
14summer sessions, may be provided throughout the year, and shall
15be known as special sessions.
16(2) The self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant
17regular course offerings available on a state-supported basis during
18the regular academic year.
19(3) For the purposes of this section, a special session course
20“supplants” a state-supported course when an undergraduate
21matriculated student is required to take a more expensive special
22session
course to graduate because a state-supported section of
23that course is unavailable either because the state-supported course
24is not offered that termbegin insert and the course is offered in a special
P3 1session,end insert or because all state-supported sectionsbegin insert of the courseend insert are
2full during the academic year at the student’s campusbegin insert and the
3course is offered in a special sessionend insert.
4(c) To the extent possible, each campus shall ensure that any
5course required as a condition of undergraduate degree completion
6for a matriculated student shall be offered as a state-supported
7course. A matriculated student who
is required to take a special
8session course to complete his or her undergraduate degree because
9a state-supported section of that course is unavailable in the
10academic year at the student’s campus shall pay the lesser of the
11state-supported section and special session course fee. In complying
12with this subdivision, the campus shall ensure, to the extent
13possible, that general fund money is not used to support a
14matriculated student’s enrollment in a special session program,
15section, or course.
16(d) Except as provided in subdivision (g), officials of a campus
17shall not reduce the number of state-supported sections of an
18undergraduate course offering while increasing the number of
19sections of the self-supporting version of that course.
20(e) Except as provided in subdivision
(g), officials of a campus
21shall not offer special session programs at that campus at times or
22in locations that limit the number of regular course offerings that
23receive state funding.
24(f) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insert Except as provided inbegin insert paragraph (2) andend insert subdivision
25(g), the number of special session sections of any individual course,
26including online courses, shall not exceed the number of
27state-supported sections of that course at a campus.
28(2) Special session sections offered as of January 1, 2015, of
29any individual course, including online courses, shall not be
30considered for purposes of paragraph (1).
31(g) With approval from the Chancellor’s office, a campus may
32add a self-supporting section of a course in a state-supported
33undergraduate degree program, add an undergraduate degree
34program, or increase the number of self-supporting sections of an
35undergraduate course offering so long as all of the following are
36satisfied:
37(1) The campus has made the determination that state resources
38are inadequate to provide for additional state-supported sections.
39(2) There is no corresponding reduction in the
aggregate number
40of state-supported course offerings on that campus. However, this
P4 1paragraph applies only to an academic year for which the annual
2Budget Act has not reduced the budget of the California State
3University from the prior year’s funding level.
4(3) The self-supporting section or sections comply with all
5applicable state laws and systemwide and campus policies.
6(h) The chancellor shall provide guidance to the campuses
7regarding how to comply with this section.begin delete The trustees shall
8annually certify compliance with this section at a regular meeting
9of the board and shall transmit that certification to the Legislature
10no later than June 30 of each academic year.end delete
It is the intent of the Legislature that the California
12State University shall receive funding sufficient to provide core
13curriculum through state-supported academic programs, that a
14matriculated student of the California State University is entitled
15to a postsecondary education within the bounds of a state-supported
16tuition and fee structure, and that a campus of the California State
17University is able to ensure that a student is not required to enroll
18in a special session program, section, or course in order to receive
19his or her postsecondary education in a timely manner.
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